EITAN KATZ | Performs Uplifting Kumzitz in Support of Israel

[Music] very special extraordinary event we have planned for you my name is May Marco from the organization before I begin I want to give a special uh thank you thank yous to the show um Young Israel Q Garden Hill for opening up their doors and partnering with kazak throughout the year and so many different events opening up their their venue for us to be able to use um to do different events and doing the special kits tonight want to give a thank you to all of our partnering organizations for this event uh moodin Q JCC and the New York City Department of cultural Affairs of course a special thank you to Rabbi spe GL for honoring us with words of inspiration this and of course for Aon cats for joining us for what will be an amazing expiration and last but not least I want to thank each and every one of you for coming out this evening it's very very important and I mean it wholeheartedly that we know that our brothers and sisters are on the front line in Israel fighting this physical battle and we're here and we have to be on the front lines fighting the spiritual battle whether that's praying whether that's learning more Torah whether that's it's doing acts ofid whether it's coming together for events like this or night ofus and inspiration a night of Unity coming together as clausel is is is just as important [Music] and throughout I've been we've been working at Kat very hard the last three weeks um L we come in and it feels like it's a it's a spiritual battle we've done probably 20 or so events in the last 3 weeks it's like an event of night and we just been trying to do as much as we can and a big Thanks goes to here who is a and this has all been do been been going on including just the the regular K program that we do all the after school programs for the elementary school kids the the teenage division the post uh the public school to yiva division that we've done over 1500 kids going from public school into the achievement system over the past I think seven or eight years and shmore I don't think I have to say how how important it is and we see what's going on within the school systems um so we've done like I said over 20 different events from physic events we've done the hilum events we're doing this amazing kumas tonight uh we have a huge CommunityWide aifa hilum gathering on Sunday um to please spread the word about that and um I want to call call up the men like I said who's behind all this who who puts in day and night puts in his effort and Cocos for CLA Israel and uh DED dedicates you know so much time I I I see a day in a day out want invite need up to to start up this evening we're going to do a few few pram of to Hill together thank you mayor [Music] is for [Music] sh just to reiterate what mayor said the importance of this Sunday AA to gather together in the thousands all the onard just alone is about a thousand people that's just the men it's for men women and children we ask everyone to please Square the word to all your family friends and Neighbors in front of the library will be the woman by Main Street in front of Kor the meaning Factory will be the men for more information you could see p the queen thank you R mirov for leading Us in says very important to is a powerful thing you know says that you know hasem blew us Soul into into Adam and it's translated by um it's translated as a he he became a speaking soul that speech is very important it's what separates you know Adam from from from animals and the rest of uh hashem's creation um and something that we do with speech is so powerful is that we create and creation and Leadership is something that you know we need now in the Jewish World more than ever that when we come up with different ideas and we can able to put uh uh what's on the on the paper into action is is is is so vital right now and our next speaker someone who's a he's a real innovator for clausell that Dr Donna is the uh the founder of an amazing organization daily giving um and he's a he's a partner with kak he's partner with Amud and many other organizations helping support supporting their lifechanging programs through a very Innovative idea and I'm sure many of you already know what daily giving is and Dr Don is going to come and tell you a little bit more [Applause] so good to [Music] everyone I think we're all here besides we want to hear eight on cats and we luck but we're here because we are every day we see the news the WhatsApp messages from world news and V nias and every different everything coming in it's constant we're our our our hearts our minds are constantly on to with our brothers and sisters and we're just trying to figure out what can we do and so I'm just going to give you tell you one thing a little bit that we could all do because I think that we' all agree that the octus that has been happening with clly the last 3 weeks has been nothing short of remarkable and the thing that I'm most proud of with daily giving is the outus that we're creating so I want to take a moment in case you know what daily giving is we automated a platform to try to get Jews from all over the world to give $1 of sua together every day that's the key together it's a dollar but when you give it together it can have a huge impact so we now have over 17,400 Jews from 39 countries giving a dollar of T ducka together every day which is over $6.3 million daily giving doesn't take a penny 100 cents of your dollar every day goes to one of a diversified portfolio of over 75 different incredible organizations Amud kazak happen to be two of our organizations that we're so proud to support and in the last 3 weeks alone we've diverted we've started an Israel emergency fund and we've diverted funds to all the Israeli organizations and we've distributed over a million dollars in the last 3 weeks alone so every day you're going to get an email telling you where the money goes and you're going to learn about a new organization if you haven't heard of it already and you're going to just see it's going to just put such a smile on your face there's so much there's so much sadness right now but there's so much joy also you can come out of it and the actus of having 177,000 Jews every every day from all over the world giving sedu together what more could hasem want than his sons and daughters giving together to their to their brothers and sisters we're less fortunate so some of you might think wow 17,000 is a lot but I think we should be at 117,000 and I think people ask me all the [Applause] [Music] time why don't why don't you have more than 177,000 and I said you're right I think we should and I think that just people forget so tell you I don't usually do this but why' you take out your phones for 1 second and email yourself to look at the website later it literally takes 1 minute to sign up it's daily giving.org and and you just go to the website you see what we're doing it's completely transparent you see who gets the money every day and I'm telling you love love love to be a part of it I'm going to just end with one quick story which I'd like to tell so if you heard me speak before you might have heard it but a gentleman once signed up for a dollar a day and then a minute later again and he repeat this five different times with five different email addresses and I called them up and I I thanked him and I said why did you sign up five different times he said I signed up for my children I said how old are your children he said 1 2 and four and I said what and he said I already I already reserved Gmail addresses for my children and now they're going to get these emails every day and when I get their password in eight or N9 or 10 years and they open up their email for the first time they're going have thousands and thousands of emails and it's just say thank you for your donation and they're going to see that they've done a Mitzvah every single day and they've been a giver their whole lives so that's what I leave you with I hope that you'll write your big checks to these incredible organizations like Amud and kazak that spend their days doing incredible things for C and just save one extra dollar day for daily giving thank you so [Applause] [Music] much okay so speaking of uh amudam uh next up is a founder and CEO of Amin R spe whose sole mission is to help individuals in any way possible they do so many different um initiatives I can't even begin the list them I was looking at their site earlier and it's just like they they cover all aspects it's unbelievable what they're doing and R luck is really an expert in relationships and right now it's so important that we strengthen our relationships with each other help create unity and after within clausel and I want to invite myl to give us some words of inspiration [Applause] good evening everybody I am going to apologize in advance that I'm what's in between you listening to aanats not so I apologize and everybody else that is here good evening we are all here as distinguished guests everyone in this room and it is a for me to have the opportunity to be presenting here tonight especially since what I'm going to be discussing there are people here far more qualified to speak about than I am Amud and kazak are two organizations which seemingly serve very very different purposes yet over the last few years and more so over the last few months we have been doing many joint events together and we're focusing on various issues that plague our community whether it's local issues Global issues am related issues of addiction abuse mental health communal related issues whatever it is we have been joining together people often ask what's the connection between these two organizations one focuses on Jewish continuity and the other one focuses on various forms of mental health the truth is now more than ever we actually have that answer there are no sides there are no different missions there are no different goals there's only one mission to help those in need whatever way possible and to address the issues that affect us all teach us that the BR from sh are measured based onus and unity of Ben is we have been taught that when we are united as one we receive an abundance of we've also been told that no lasting blessings can actually exist without bringing in to love every single person unconditionally in order for that to work we need to do everything in our power as individuals and as a community to avoid the pitfalls of larus makus and judging others we're constantly taught that if we follow these prescriptions our community the United States ER and the World At Large will undoubtedly enjoy greater bras from above tonight's Gathering reflects that Unity which brings us together many Community leaders community members Community leaders rund different professionals but most importantly all different backgrounds in this week's par show whether it's from sto to the Golan from Israel to Australia from New York to California all corners of the world we are all reading the same to portion of par which incidentally is mys from Easy week thanks R we learned something so powerful that I need to share it here we learned that Noah was the first human being to be called is a man of righteousness by the himself in conversation we see that tells no how upset he is about the world's immorality and the corruption and he's decided to destroy the world and start again the story continues where no has given Specific Instructions of what to do build a t this is the size this amount of floors how many animals different types and he's given over 100 years to get the job done the mafam explained that the Hope was that perhaps people will see it ask what's going on do chuba and hopefully the world will be saved we know how that story ends as we come to the end of the par we meet aru for the first time ainu is given two very very interesting and special unique titles one is our father ainu and the other is he is considered the first member of clero and these two things hold true we still consider that till today thousands of years later so so the question remains if Noah was the first sadic and he did his job he did what hasem asked him to do he was trying to save the world mankind his role was very important why is he not considered Noah why is he not considered the first member of the tribe we learn in life that no matter what is going to happen even if we think we know what the outcome is we are never to give up hope we are always taught that we have to do our part no may have had a 100 years to build something to warn the public teach them Inspire them simply stated to do whatever he can to save humanity and not just his family yet he remained quiet he was not proactive furthermore he never actually asked Hashem to remove that decree with we see something very different the par uses the language of hasem commands us to do what we need to maintain Justice mercy and acts of kindness when Hashem decided to destroy the two most notorious evil communities in the world soru what did Abu do he did all he can to persuade the one above to have a change of heart are we saying Abu didn't know what the result would be it doesn't matter he still tried he not only tries but he tries multiple options everybody some 50 20 like what's going on here and what's interesting is every single time he tries he ple for these cities he pleased for these people no matter what happens Hashem responds to him in kind he doesn't say mind your own business I know what I'm doing he explains okay if you find x amount of people we'll do it this way find this do it this way what we see is that abam was not only worried about the entire world but he was worried about every single individual so when the says that he did exactly what commanded we see that's not enough this is what set ainu apart ainu was a wealthy person successful according to many he was King likee yet his concern was for each individual and the not just the entire world we've heard a lot tonight so far and we've heard a lot over the last few weeks and there's a lot going on in the world there's a lot and we have to internalize what we're seeing and what we're learning and the lessons being taught in a way that can help us grow as AMR there's a magic potion which is how we have survived all these thousands of years which is based on the teachings the life and the actions of aru more so the main tenant of him which is in its entirety be it Mercy advocacy Justice any type of we talk about the concept of begins at home and we see that is the primary in life when things are stressful is when it's easiest for us as people to lose sight of what's important and we have to remember that these are trying times and we'll get into it a little bit in a minute and it's okay that we are upset by things we're hurt that's fine but we have to remember that in addition to the relationship with Hashem and the relationship with people we have to remember the relationships at home we come home the news was something you're in a bad mood something's going on we got to take a step back and say wait we have to learn begins at home the relationships at home is where it starts and where it ends in order for us to be able to do what we do in a better fashion if you look around there is no community in the world that has the amount of organizations organizations that help multiple organizations like we just heard from daily giving there is nothing like am Israel this doesn't apply only in Queens New York the US it's globally we are a nation of and that is the secret to our survival the volume of that comes out of CLA is extr extremely disproportionate to the numbers of people in K but we remember we are the children of ainu and as CLR as a group we care not only about ourselves but about all of humanity down to the individual Who's down tring this is the recipe to keep us going we talk about s sis sad we talk about righteousness which is very important yet we see that Noah who was an ish which is very very important but was not what we consider an is we're living in unprecedented times between what's going on in ER anti-semitic attacks around the world and at home and none of us can make sense of it we can't realistically speaking I'm sure if we ask every person in this room within two degrees of separation everyone is directly impacted by what's going on in Israel right now I could speak for myself I have the nephew in the Army we have the entire amudam Israel staff that we're worried about and we're all struggling it's not easy and to this we say it's okay not to be okay we're all human we have emotions we feel but we you also need to be strong enough to know when to ask for help no one should struggle alone usually the speeches I give are more about specific issues whether it's abuse addiction mental health issues various communities but the message is always the same be strong and ask for help I say this proudly I myself I'm in therapy I go every week today was probably one of the most intense sessions I've had since I started therapy many many years ago and that's because I realized I was not okay and that's okay because I had who to discuss it with my second message that I want to leave you with and final note for this evening is that we always have to look at the positive in everything in life we have to take out the good as you just heard from Rabbi Dr donut and from rabbi of the unity in CLA is right now is something that none of us have ever seen in our life here at home in AR around the world it's simply incredible but we have to remember those important lessings from a we need to keep this momentum going so that we can benefit from the brus bestowed upon us I mean look at er alone there is no right there's no left there's no parties no political affiliations everybody is working everybody we look around here we are one people we're not ashkanazi modern Orthodox reform conservative Russian barari and Israeli it makes no difference we are one and this is the way we need to keep it we are proudly a nation of a Nation that CES and when we remember this and we keep in unity together we're able to ensure that the prophecy that hasem told ainu when you'll be blessed like the says all the nations will be blessed the ultimate unity maintaining that that's what we need to do we need to keep this message loud and clear and live it this way we can continue to enjoy the blessings of being on and more importantly we can continue to live with peace Harmony until the coming of msia and be able to proudly say I'm is thank [Applause] [Music] you thank you right love for those inspiring uplifting words and very powerful message that we all um really need to take to heart you know when we've sat down in the office these last three weeks I think the first day I walked in and I looked at Robbie and I said what do we what are we going to do you know it was it was like not coming in like what's what's on the schedule day it's like we have to get things done we have to do these events we have to bring to the communities and every day we were coming up with new ideas and I realized I I said you know what every year we work with QJ CC on the these really inspirational events um a lot of you know we do a carnival in the summer and you know they're one of our our big uh partnering organizations with that and so I said Robbie why don't we need to do something why don't we reach out and try and plan something that we us you know have two three events with them throughout the year um usually around the holidays or or something and he said we should do really big clets with a Time cats and we should reach out to them and see if they wanted do called Rabbi Waxman and right away um he told us it sounded like an amazing idea to bring unity and offers everything that Rabbi luck is talking about bringing people together and making us all unite as one and put aside all of our differences and we thought of it because you know song and music is so important it allows each of us to connect with the the Sparks of Holiness with inside of us or different emotional experiences and really dig deep and and connect to Hashem on very spiritual level that is so powerful that even they say even Nua wasn't accomplished without music it can take us to Heights and it can allow us to impact ourselves and those around us ways that we can't even imagine and obviously you know aan doesn't need any introduction um but you know I'm sure I have and other people have been to his kumes or listened to his music before and he knows how deep and impactful it is you know how much words of Torah are intertwined Within the Music really uplift us uh so without further Ado i' like to follow upan cast [Applause] [Music] hey [Music] sh is sh is sh I ch is sh [Music] [Applause] his show show [Applause] [Music] is sh [Music] sh sh my [Music] sh [Music] [Applause] together sh show he [Music] the [Music] sh I highest let me you guys [Music] together [Applause] [Music] my we are we [Music] are [Music] is [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] joh everybody um so just to be uh first of all before you begin I apologize for I can do it this set up I mean I put the beo it's a show it's supposed to be like this I didn't really know where to set up so I'm sure not everybody they can see they want the way they want to see on the sides and I I apologize I treading around a little bit but it's amazing it's [Applause] amazing set the guy in the front but um I guess there some I'm going I'm going a shim but tonight it's not really about the visual it's not really about it's about listening it's about closing our eyes trying to uh someh connect I'm just going to be honest with you as we move forward with this [Music] night I've picked up the guitar a handful of times for event since everything started and every time I pick up the guitar I feel like awkward I feel weird I'm not sure what I'm doing you know even this I mean the only time I really should be doing anything is for a crowd like this who's coming to me kazak but still it just feels I feel uncomfortable and I think that that's okay you know what I'm saying I think that's okay I shouldn't look too comfortable up here I shouldn't be rocking that guitar SOS tonight it's not like I never do but like it's it's but uh let's take the opportunity that we have that hasem sent us for tonight to try to really connect to every and try to listen to the words that I'm singing to and I deep deeply and thankful for the kazak organization for having me here tonight I know this is really really hard to believe but I'm pretty sure this is the first event that we're doing together is that possible the first solo event I I think I don't remember I shouldn't have said that because that's probably not true but I I don't remember the last time we got to sit together with one of these beautiful so let's uh let's continue and I just want to thank everybody for coming tonight together Kem doesn't necessarily mean going outside holding a banner that says that's also true a being inspired as a k right a y being inspired a y being more more aware of his or herish that itself is a kid that's the sanctification of hm's name in this world so must do that tonight [Music] he and know sh [Music] he [Music] sh h [Music] H how [Music] [Applause] [Music] has she l God voice I the name b my the me my come on together with me I [Music] Hu [Music] hallelu hallah St and [Music] [Applause] [Music] the great coming with the how good I am how I [Music] know together hallelu Hall yes I feel the feel BS everybody together [Music] [Applause] like everybody has been saying this uh through the darkness and gosh it's so dark excuse me we've seen so many beauties of amist one of the things I don't know if you know this or not no this but there was a there's a there's a video article about the fighting that was done right after the the whole thing took place to try to free whatever hostages that were still freeable at the time and there was a video of soldiers going around to different like places that try to see if there were people there and I Mish like my heart I'm getting out I I my heart like just like melted because the Nim of our generation one of their ways to get the yiden out was to pretend that they were really like Israeli soldiers and the the yiden caught on at a certain point that this is not this is not really Israeli soldiers and do you know the way the Israeli soldiers would come and verify and the Israeli soldiers also would be nervous that the people that are let's say barricaded inside weren't terrorists do you know what the communication was between the and the and the civilians one soldier would scream out and they would answer [Music] back and that's the way they would be able to identify each other I don't want to say anything more because you have to let that like you know seep in right so let's let's sing aing together from to the [Applause] words all the all of the prisoners who would ever believe that we would be talking about three Ro kep you know prisoners of we can't even this is like M like as crazy as it is to even say that that's how crazy the Gula will be to us that would be like like mind blown so again the words [Music] are all [Music] the at this point there's no such thing as from non [Music] from it doesn't matter anymore everyone is saying one thing then they respond with so everybody let's try to D our hearts out right now and if you don't know the N just sing with me [Music] anyways [Music] go together [Music] night [Music] everyone I let's go together let's hear you guys together louder louder louder I time together [Applause] it used to be that used to be that I when I was first starting out as Jeremy remembers I used to break a string every night because I didn't know how to play guitar now I realized I only break strings every other night now but I always tell people that that whenever there is a technical malfunction at any of my events it's only a sign that theara and Sal want to interfere with what's going to happen here tonight so the awkwardness of me changing my guitar string in front of [Music] people is really not awkward at all as to me I'm excited it's a little bit awkward but will be okay [Music] I [Music] seven more [Music] times [Music] [Applause] h la [Music] h [Music] you [Music] oh [Music] you are I [Music] even number five in the back you God sh I you who know you us oh oh [Applause] oh one together give me Harmony may not [Applause] one more time let's again [Music] I I know [Music] you are [Applause] are I know we sh turn [Music] [Applause] [Music] me [Music] you love one more time just guys th I [Music] we know [Music] are I God la hey go am the is I all yeah I'm going to going to die la he be we [Applause] all right sit down I promise we get you so don't worry [Music] nice you will the mountain will [Music] [Applause] this I you I you [Music] [Applause] I will in the hill side away away my love for you [Music] will [Applause] i k just C love [Music] everybody here m [Music] I to M everyone together here let [Applause] go I [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] oh W and Hill but my love GL you will not the Mountains will crumble and for you you know my friends based on the translation of this P what it means that my love for you will not end as Hashem speaking to [Music] us but you know we're human and we have [Music] to we have to look at the sky and the [Music] sh and we also have to say but my love for you well not [Music] hashem's love for us is like a love from a parent to a child that's Everlasting which means what didn't start didn't [Music] end right if anybody over here was asked why they love their child and they give you reasons that means they don't love their child why do you love your child because cuz he's my child or cuz he makes his b or cuz he's a good student cuz he has good meos cuz he know no if you give a reason why you love your child means you have no idea what it means so hasem loving us the mountains can crumble the mountains I don't know if you noticed have crumbled and the hillsides I don't know if youve noticed but you I was saying this V of the mountains have crumbled and the mountains have faded away you know when they started saying that when mean happened and I thought the end of the world was here basically the pain and he still said but my love for you will not will never go away will never end and I kept on having this vision of a father and child you know actually it's not a vision has actually happened I forgot about this I'm remembering back then that I used to put my son to sleep or my daughter I remember who it was and we used to sing the song together and we used to say to each other but my love for you and then she would say no no no for you we would fight no for you for you for you for you right now we're doing the same thing [Music] with we're playing that cut little game no matter what the brings upon us he says to us my love for you will never end and we say back no my love for you will never end and it's like two people who love each other so much it's the sweetest fight in the world so everyone let's sing it one more time have that in mind and hasem is saying to us my love for you and we're saying back no my love for you how can hasem not bring mashia when we're fighting over that who loves each other more how can hasem not bring the G how can not eliminate every russer in the world together the Mountains will crumble and the hill love for you the mountain and the hillside who fade away but my love for you will not end but my [Music] love but my love for you when [Music] not [Music] thank you to Joshua over there for helping us [Applause] [Music] J by the way this is Jeremy Brown the violin [Applause] everybody many [Music] years okay you know what I was told that we're supposed to end in 10 minutes but that's not going to happen is that [Applause] okay it's going to be [Music] f [Music] K see keep our you go he Di la la [Music] la [Applause] I see so beautiful one [Music] time you the you go la you guys the Harmon you know what Harmony that I do you know it yeah you guys know it all right I want to have this gu do the melody that's the regular K the harmony okay go on to now switch Melody let's go everybody [Applause] together of me is you guys is [Applause] my I [Applause] I know my [Music] audience so I was thinking on my way here I was thinking to [Music] myself I was thinking to myself what that do I have that has the word kak in it right then I was like no then I remembered I remembered that earlier a few months ago in Ed which seems like six years ago right I was playing a uh an event in M and it was during El it was a very long and kind of it was a fundraiser for a certain organization and I made at the time that I said it I made in my head I made the mistake of saying that I said if we raise x amount of money then I'm going to compose was a fure on the spot over here thinking like what's wrong with me how would I do that to myself and they raised that amount of money and then I said no no no I'm extra $10,000 and they reached that and then literally I raised like twice hoping to get out of it hoping to raise a lot of money for the organization but also to get out of the I couldn't get out of it and I said to them okay fine I said listen I I don't guarantee that this works not like a magic button you press and and it comes in not a vending machine you know and uh if it works words if it doesn't you have to be one so I said what words you want me to record a n to write a into so they said I said no no I'm joking anything that has the word no I'm joking I said I said okay so I wrote first words because that we know we say those words during the so it ends up and I never ever talk about me going like this but I really like this one I really really like it I like all of them but I don't you know tell you but like I really really like this one this is like really special to me so especially because it has the word it doesn't have aim in it I'm sorry I couldn't find that next there any songs song movie all right I'm sure a Ron will write a beautiful song for you that has word minute I was going to have some water I just got back yesterday morning from South Africa when they called me to do this event it was like all right you either have Wednesday night or Thursday night I my C 16 hours flying is I don't recommend it to anybody you know there's there's T there's there's in the farthest parts of the world you have no idea one years been beautiful I was in Cav Town yes two days ago anybody here ever been to Cave town you got to go it's absolutely the most incredible most moving it's not normal scenery anyways the tour guy that was taking me around for I was just there for like a half a day he was taking me around and he was showing me a different part of the Jewish Community he said you see that blue house over there I said yeah said you know who lives there I said who like opening her right now says the community the community set up they bought a house and they designated it that if anybody from the community falls into hard times and doesn't have a place to stay he stays over there with his family like cave town I'm just couldn't believe it so my hours are off I don't even know what dat is right now but I'm going to have some water before you CL time [Music] CL [Music] L Le lead us to L might lead [Music] us Le to [Music] Shaz [Music] C [Music] Lord mying no the through [Music] [Laughter] my [Music] sh [Music] come [Music] has we [Music] sing everybody [Music] be for those who didn't clap I still like it right I'll take you out of your you guys ready with me [Applause] [Music] yeah [Music] my I said [Music] the came I yeah the sa Dar it together iome [Music] sh [Music] everybody my we the St com together I sh let's see you get [Applause] together my heart sh get go oh the god oh the show [Music] oh you [Applause] my God I want to I want to thank everybody here for coming tonight M everybody here on the women's section and the men's section it m warms my heart so people came at here tonight to sing together I want to thank kak and and you know I I I played the reason why I went to South Africa I played I played a wedding there and I did I did a couple of events to come conert and at we had a little at the end of the of the and I said to I said I want to give you guys a that you will be known as the and who were the last ones to have the last on I just want to say I hope that I'm right I don't know whoever got married in the past couple of days I'm sure there was but that was the and may this be the last time that we have to come together out of a need for and let the Jews come together only from dancing and singing we should all be to the [Applause] la [Applause] la w h [Applause] I'm I'm that's that's crazy I found out crazy I [Applause] everybody oh thank you so much thank you so [Applause] much all